Northern Ireland delicacies

GlynD

Talking about food on the "butchery" thread has got me thinking about the foods from home that I like and missed when I was in the army. Things you just can't get anywhere else. Once you were back home though and had a good feed of whatever it was you were craving it didn't seem as important anymore.

It's changed a bit in modern times because you can order a lot of food items online which you couldn't do when I was serving but here are some of the things we craved:

Vegetable roll
Steak sausage
Tayto crisps
Potato bread
Potato apple bread
Soda bread
Wheaten bread
Bushmills whiskey

What have I left out? I know I didn't include poundies, champ or colcannon but you can make these things anywhere. What floats your boat when it comes to traditional dishes?

Old_Git

all heart attack on a plate stuff;)

GlynD

Old_Git wrote: »

all heart attack on a plate stuff;)

Totally - poor man's food. The sort of thing we were raised on. How many times when you were young, before the advent of late night takeaways did you "put the pan on" when tripping home from the boozer at 10.30pm?

warmhands.coldheart

Spuds, Cabbage & Bacon with half a pound of Butter !!

GlynD

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Spuds, Cabbage & Bacon with half a pound of Butter !!

You can eat that virtually anywhere though.

motorguy

Champ

We would have had that at least once a week when i was wee.

My dad used to put hot milk round his too, which was weird.

lazer

GlynD wrote: »

You can eat that virtually anywhere though.

You can eat most of it anywhere (well the breads anyway) - just make it yourself - ingredients are widely available!

I was always crazy about tayto cheese and onion as soon as I landed in Belfast airport after working away I'd buy some along with Sukie (Not sure if you get in England now though - maybe you can?)

D.A.

Veda. End of thread.

Old_Git

ulster stew
ulster fry
[STRIKE]Ulster says no[/STRIKE] oops wrong thread :eek:

emmett123

good sausages...

Scrabo

Potted herring
Dulse